Download or read book Charles Gaines written by Naima J. Keith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989 is the first solo museum exhibition focused exclusively on the American artist's early bodies of work. Widely regarding as one of the leading exponents of Post-minimalist art in the late 1970s, Charles Gaines is known primarily for his photographs, drawings and works on paper that investigate systems, cognition and language. This exhibition catalogue includes full-color reproductions of works included in the exhibition from series produced between 1974 and 1989, including Numbers & Trees (1989), Motion: Trisha Brown Dance (1981) and Walnut Tree Orchard (1975), among others; newly commissioned essays by Anne Ellegood, Malik Gaines, Naima J. Keith, Courtney J. Martin, Howard Singerman, Bennett Simpson, Ellen Tani, with an introduction by Studio Museum Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden; introductory texts for each series; and an illustrated chronology.
Download or read book The Theater of Refusal written by Charles Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pumping Iron written by Charles Gaines and published by Creators Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO ARE THEY AND WHY DO THEY DO IT? –these men who dedicate themselves to building bodies like Hellenistic statues; who crisscross the world competing for titles as grandiose yet as publicly uncelebrated (Mr. America, Mr. Universe, Mr. Olympia) as their gargantuan physiques; whose daily lives are as rigidly defined and regulated by their obsession to mold the ideal body as any other master athlete's is towards perfecting his craft. Yet, rather than the public acclaim that normally follows an athletic triumph, only their fellow muscle men know who they are and know the price they have paid to win their incredible bodies. Novelist Charles Gaines and photographer George Butler have spent the last two years trying to capture the essence of this strange, joyful, exotic world: “We have been to quite a few places tracking bodybuilders, seeing contests and putting together the materials here. If we felt at times a little like 19th-century explorers –like Doughty, perhaps, off trekking through Arabia –it was because we found bodybuilding to be as primeval and unmapped as parts of Labrador. Nobody, we discovered, had been back into it to send a report on what it was like. This struck us then as peculiar, and it still does.
Download or read book In the Shadow of Numbers written by Charles Gaines and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Shadow of Numbers accompanies a survey exhibition and collects for the first time new writings and images on the influential Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines (born 1944). Gaines investigates the relationships between aesthetic experience, political beliefs and the formation of meaning. His work over the last 40 years has typically employed systems and rule-based procedures to explore how we experience and derive meaning from art. Although Gaines is often linked with Conceptual artists of the 1960s, he identifies more closely with John Cage s examinations of indeterminacy in both composition and performance. The book includes an extensive selection of images of drawings, photographs, sculptures and video from several bodies of Gaines s work over the last several decades.
Download or read book The Next Valley Over written by Charles Gaines and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed sporting and adventure writer Charles Gaines has spent much of his life on the water, around the world, fishing rod in hand, angling for trout, redfish, salmon, bonefish, bass, marlin, tuna, and practically everything else that swims. Just about any place where there's water to fish and eccentrics to keep him company, Gaines has been. The Next Valley Over, a collection of his best writing on fishing from his long and storied career, is culled from the pages of Men's Journal, Forbes, and Sports Afield, among other publications, and ultimately is about the heart of the sport. While his stories are lined with the accoutrement of angling--the art of technique, the equipment, the lodges, the fish themselves--they're really about why we love to fish and what it means to our culture. As Thoreau once said: “Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” What “they are after” is what Charles is curious about, and he has devoted the better part of his life and sanity to coming up with answers. Starting and ending at the majestic Lake Tadpole in St. Clair County, Alabama, where Gaines’s love of fishing was initially sparked, the Next Valley Over chronicles exploits in exotic locations with eccentric characters. In the process of his quest of nearly every species known to man, Gaines explores what we are really searching for when we fish.
Download or read book Survival Games written by Charles Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men must use the survival and tracking skills they had only applied to games when their wives are kidnapped during a weekend getaway at the couples' country home
Download or read book Akademie X written by Marina Abramovic and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembled from the wisdom of 36 legendary art teachers – all of them artists or critics at the top of their field – Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life is an ideal curriculum for the aspiring artist. Each of the book’s "tutors" has provided a unique lesson that aims to provoke, inspire and stimulate the aspiring artist. These lessons cover some combination of the following: technical advice (e.g. don’t make a sculpture bigger than your studio door), assignments (some of which will take five minutes to complete, others five years), tips for avoiding creative ruts (including suggestions for mind‐expanding materials to read, watch or listen to), principles of careful looking (demonstrated with images of artworks, photographs, films or even billboard advertisements), advice on the daily practice of art (how to balance time alone in the studio with building an artistic community), career pointers (how to prepare for a studio visit from a curator or gallerist) and personal anecdotes (e.g. stories from the instructor’s own humble beginnings). Taken together, these lessons offer the reader a set of tools for thinking, seeing and living as an artist. Not only is Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life the first illustrated text book of its kind for artists, but it will also appeal to anyone interested in contemporary art, providing first hand revelations into the philosophies and techniques of some of the world’s best artists and writers.
Download or read book Stay Hungry written by Charles Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fathers and Sons written by David Seybold and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated editor of Seasons of the Angler and Boats once again brings together some of the best writers of our time in this collection of essays, poems, and stories that examine the mysteries of the relationships between fathers and sons--24 pieces that sound a poignant and deeply honest tribute to men in all their mortality.
Download or read book Heroes And Villains written by Steven Gaines and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1995-08-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "reveals the gothic tale of drugs, sex, music, greed, booze, and genius behind the wholesome image of the Beach Boys."--Jacket.
Download or read book Terry Adkins written by Terry Adkins and published by Levy Gorvy. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated book explores the materiality of Terry Adkins's sculptures. The exhibition was curated by Charles Gaines, a celebrated artist and longtime friend and collaborator of Adkins's, who contributed an illuminating essay to this publication that explores the physicality and experience of viewing Adkins's sculptures. The catalogue also includes an essay by Michael Brenson, and newly commissioned poetry by Robin Coste Lewis. Exhibition: Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York, USA (10.01.-17.02.2018).
Download or read book Howardena Pindell written by Naomi Beckwith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career to date. Since the 1960s, she has used materials such as glitter, talcum powder, and perfume to stretch the boundaries of traditional canvas painting. She has also infused her work with traces of her labor, such as obsessively affixing dots of pigment and circles made with an ordinary hole punch tool. After a car crash in 1979 left her with short-term amnesia, Pindell's work looked beyond the painting studio to explore a wide range of subjects, including the personal and diaristic as well as the social and political. This monograph also highlights Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance. Excerpts from the artist's writing, in particular her critique of the art world and her responses to feminism and racial politics, provide prescient commentary in light of conversations around equality and inclusion today. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Download or read book Leaper written by Charles Gaines and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaper captures in words and pictures the ambience of Atlantic salmon fly-fishing in all its aspects - the beautiful landscapes, the thrill of the quest, the ones that got away, and the ones that didn't. Renowned novelist and fishing author Charles Gaines and his co-editor Monte Burke draw together a collection of the greatest and most evocative writing on the subject, matched to superb photographs, as well as historic watercolors, etchings, and other memorabilia. (9 1/2 x 12, 224 pages, color photos, b&w photos, etchings)
Download or read book Now Dig This written by Kellie Jones and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often overlooked legacy of Los Angeles's African American artists, featuring many never-before-seen works.
Download or read book Make Em All Mexican written by Linda Vallejo and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the "Make 'Em All Mexican" solo exhibition at George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 2 - March 9, 2013 with preface by Armando Duron and critical essays by Dr. Karen Mary Davalos and Bill Moreno.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Charles Atlas written by Charles Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking Good written by Lynne Luciano and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men once dreaded being accused of vanity, but now they are spending millions on fitness training, bodybuilding, hair replacement, and cosmetic surgery in the relentless pursuit of physical perfection. In this lively examination, Luciano explores what this new world reveals about American society today.
